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Overview

MAIS OUI!'s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages students in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails "thinking" then "observing and inferring" and finally "confirming," the program skillfully encourages students to discover for themselves how the language works. Students move rapidly through the material, developing these essential critical-thinking skills and uncovering the multiple layers of meaning. What they acquire in this manner is stored in long-term memory, facilitating a faster development of proficiency. The fifth edition offers seven new high-interest readings based on careful consideration of reviewer feedback. A new Culture Portfolio section, Bloguez! is integrated into every culture section of the textbook. The online Culture Portfolio is hosted via the iLrn Heinle Learning center through the Share It! feature and allows students to interact with their classmates, post pictures, videos, and make cross-cultural comparisons. By the use of familiar online or offline tools, students are encouraged to communicate between each others, leveraging the technical and cultural inputs they acquire through each chapter.

Features and Benefits

MAIS OUI!'s inductive approach engages students in the discovery of the French language by providing the strategies they need to think independently, analyze, draw analogies, and infer meaning.

Carefully selected real-world listening and reading materials are used as an entry point into the French language. Through a hierarchy of tasks, students develop strategies that enable them to process this input successfully, which serves as a natural stage for the introduction of vocabulary, grammar, culture, and the practice of language functions.

Task-based practice features carefully crafted activities that develop students' critical-thinking skills. By the end of the MAIS OUI! program, students are able to express personal meaning about a variety of topics, ask and answer questions, and deal with everyday situations in French.

"Notes culturelles," "Culture et réfléxion," and "Synthèse culturelle" sections provide abundant information about French and Francophone culture and serve as a springboard for task-based activities that engage students in examining their own cultural perspectives.

iLrn™: Heinle Learning Center provides students with everything they need to master the skills and concepts of the course. The dynamic audio- and video-enhanced learning environment includes an audio-enhanced eBook with integrated activities, companion videos, an interactive voiceboard, an online workbook and lab manual with audio, interactive enrichment activities, a class blog, diagnostic activities that generate a personalized study plan for each student, and access to a variety of online tutorial services.

What's New

MAIS OUI! uses literature as a culminating point in each chapter's "Quatrième étape: intégration" to stretch and enhance students' reading skills, to synthesize the chapter's content, and to bring closure to the chapter's theme. The fifth edition offers seven new high-interest readings based on careful consideration of reviewer feedback.

Cultural content has been updated; it is more contemporary, and it expands into a variety of Francophone cultures.

A new "Culture Portfolio" section, Bloguez! is integrated into every culture section of the textbook. The online Culture Portfolio is hosted via the iLrn Heinle Learning center through the "Share It!" feature. In the textbook, students are given prompts and suggestions for topics to include in their personalized cultural portfolio. The "Share It!" feature allows students to interact with their classmates, post pictures, videos, and make cross-cultural comparisons.

The revised "Synthèse culturelle" sections incorporate new video footage featuring native Francophone speakers sharing their perspective on different cultural topics. The complete set of video activities is now featured in the lab manual portion of the Student Activities Manual and on the iLrn Heinle Learning Center.

Revisions to the listening passages reflect the current day realities of the Francophone world.

Practice activities, both receptive and productive, have been added and revised to ensure that there is ample opportunity for practice, and that each practice is meaningful.

Vocabulary has been updated and now includes new technology terms.

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Efficacy and Outcomes

Reviews

"I find this approach to language much more engaging for the students by requiring students to utilize critical thinking and teaches them to become more independent, inquisitive thinkers."

— Scott Powers, University of Mary Washington

"The models for structures are very clear and there is an abundance of exercises where students can practice, ranging from drill type exercises to more open ended activities . . . excellent!"

— Donna Coulet du Gard, University of Delaware

Supplements

All supplements have been updated in coordination with the main title. Select the main title's "About" tab, then select "What's New" for updates specific to title's edition.

For more information about these supplements, or to obtain them, contact your Learning Consultant.

Instructor Supplements

Mais Oui!
(ISBN-10: 1111832757 | ISBN-13: 9781111832759)

MAIS OUI!'s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages students in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails "thinking" then "observing and inferring" and finally "confirming," the program skillfully encourages students to discover for themselves how the language works. Students move rapidly through the material, developing these essential critical-thinking skills and uncovering the multiple layers of meaning. What they acquire in this manner is stored in long-term memory, facilitating a faster development of proficiency. The fifth edition offers seven new high-interest readings based on careful consideration of reviewer feedback. A new Culture Portfolio section, Bloguez! is integrated into every culture section of the textbook. The online Culture Portfolio is hosted via the iLrn Heinle Learning center through the Share It! feature and allows students to interact with their classmates, post pictures, videos, and make cross-cultural comparisons. By the use of familiar online or offline tools, students are encouraged to communicate between each others, leveraging the technical and cultural inputs they acquire through each chapter.

MAIS OUI!'s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages students in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails "thinking" then "observing and inferring" and finally "confirming," the program skillfully encourages students to discover for themselves how the language works. Students move rapidly through the material, developing these essential critical-thinking skills and uncovering the multiple layers of meaning. What they acquire in this manner is stored in long-term memory, facilitating a faster development of proficiency. The fifth edition offers seven new high-interest readings based on careful consideration of reviewer feedback. A new Culture Portfolio section, Bloguez! is integrated into every culture section of the textbook. The online Culture Portfolio is hosted via the iLrn Heinle Learning center through the Share It! feature and allows students to interact with their classmates, post pictures, videos, and make cross-cultural comparisons. By the use of familiar online or offline tools, students are encouraged to communicate between each others, leveraging the technical and cultural inputs they acquire through each chapter.

MAIS OUI!’s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages students in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails “thinking” then “observing and inferring” and finally “confirming,” the program skillfully encourages students to discover for themselves how the language works. Students move rapidly through the material, developing these essential critical-thinking skills and uncovering the multiple layers of meaning. What they acquire in this manner is stored in long-term memory, facilitating a faster development of proficiency. The fifth edition offers seven new high-interest readings based on careful consideration of reviewer feedback. A new Culture Portfolio section, Bloguez! is integrated into every culture section of the textbook. The online Culture Portfolio is hosted via the iLrn Heinle Learning center through the Share It! feature and allows students to interact with their classmates, post pictures, videos, and make cross-cultural comparisons. By the use of familiar online or offline tools, students are encouraged to communicate between each others, leveraging the technical and cultural inputs they acquire through each chapter.

The Workbook section of the SAM provides structured, written practice of the materials introduced in the corresponding chapters and additional reading comprehension based on cultural and journalistic topics. The Lab Manual section, designed for use with the audio and video program, contains pronunciation practice, a variety of listening comprehension tasks, and video activities to accompany the newly revised video program.

This valuable resource provides you with tips on how to bring students from partial to full control of intermediate speaking functions. Watch how the MAIS OUI! method is applied in Chantal Thompson's own classroom. A series of video segments on DVD-ROM capture her and her colleague teaching the concepts from Chapitre préliminaire through Chapitre 3, as well as the À l'écoute and Prononciation sections for Chapitres 4 through 6. Also included on the CD are lesson plans, sample syllabi, grammar charts, vocabulary presentations, and the MAIS OUI! videoscript. A set of chapter-specific info-gap/communicative activities are found on this robust Instructor Resource CD-ROM.

DVD
(ISBN-10: 1111832730 | ISBN-13: 9781111832735)

The MAIS OUI! video contains thirteen modules that reinforce and expand on the themes, vocabulary, and language functions presented in the textbook, with realistic situations and real-world language. Filmed on location in the streets of Aix-en-Provence and other parts of France, each module features recurring characters in a situational segment and live interviews with Francophone speakers. New to the fifth edition is an additional series of engaging interviews to accompany the Synthèse culturelle in the textbook.

Designed specifically for world language educators and today's computer-savvy students, Quia is an advanced and easy-to-use e-learning platform for delivering activities to students via the Web. Focus on giving your students the individual feedback they need by saving time on grading SAM assignments, customizing activities and questions, and setting up your course in a few simple steps. A complete online workbook and homework package with interactive exercises and Web links, Quia is also an integrated course management system that automatically grades many types of exercises and then sends the results straight to a versatile cross-platform electronic grade book that allows you to track the results for individual students and your entire class. Quia even has a floating accent bar for world languages! Students can purchase instant access to Quia at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

Available with the text for a nominal fee, Personal Tutor gives your students access to one-on-one, online tutoring help from a subject-area expert. In Personal Tutor's virtual classroom, students interact with the tutor and other students using two-way audio, an interactive whiteboard for illustrating the problem, and instant messaging. To ask a question, students simply click to raise a "hand." For proprietary, college, and university adopters only. For details, consult your Cengage Learning representative. Students may purchase access to Personal Tutor at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

This all-in-one diagnostic, tutorial, assessment, assignment, and course management system saves you time and saves your students money! Everything your students need to master the skills and concepts of the course is built right in to the dynamic audio- and video-enhanced learning environment of iLrn: Heinle Learning Center, including an interactive diagnostic study tool, an audio-enhanced eBook, companion videos, interactive VoiceBoard, and over thirty grammar tutorial videos. For instructors, the iLrn: Heinle Learning Center features solutions organized around what you do day to day, saving you time on course set up and administrative tasks! With its easy-to-use interface, you can manage students' varying skill levels, set up an entire term's work in minutes, assign audio-enhanced tests and activities, access students' grades, and more. The new Share It! Feature enables sharing and uploading files, such as videos, for assignments and projects. Share It! also allows students to comment and rate their classmates' uploaded material. Students can purchase instant access to the iLrn™: Heinle Learning Center at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

Student Supplements

Mais Oui!
(ISBN-10: 1111832757 | ISBN-13: 9781111832759)

MAIS OUI!'s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages you in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails "thinking" then "observing and inferring" and finally "confirming," the program skillfully drives you to discover how the language works. Through this proven method, you successfully acquire the language and quickly reach a higher level of proficiency.

MAIS OUI!'s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages you in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails "thinking" then "observing and inferring" and finally "confirming," the program skillfully drives you to discover how the language works. Through this proven method, you successfully acquire the language and quickly reach a higher level of proficiency.

MAIS OUI!’s success was founded on its unique guided approach that engages you in the discovery of the French language and Francophone cultures. Through its proven methodology that entails “thinking” then “observing and inferring” and finally “confirming,” the program skillfully drives you to discover how the language works. Through this proven method, you successfully acquire the language and quickly reach a higher level of proficiency.

The Workbook section of the SAM provides structured, written practice of the materials introduced in the corresponding chapters and additional reading comprehension based on cultural and journalistic topics. The Lab Manual section, designed for use with the audio program, contains pronunciation practice and a variety of listening comprehension tasks.

DVD
(ISBN-10: 1111832730 | ISBN-13: 9781111832735)

The MAIS OUI! video contains thirteen modules that reinforce and expand on the themes, vocabulary, and language functions presented in the textbook, with realistic situations and real-world language. Filmed on location in the streets of Aix-en-Provence and other parts of France, each module features recurring characters in a situational segment and live interviews with Francophone speakers. New to the fifth edition is an additional series of engaging interviews to accompany the Synthèse culturelle in the textbook.

Designed specifically for today's computer-savvy students, Quia is an advanced and easy-to-use e-learning platform for delivering activities to you via the Web. A complete online workbook and homework package with interactive exercises and Web links, Quia is also an integrated course management system that automatically grades many types of exercises and then sends the results straight to a versatile cross-platform electronic grade book that allows you to track your results. Quia even has a floating accent bar for world languages! You can purchase instant access to Quia at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

Personal Tutor is your ticket to live, one-on-one tutoring with an online subject area expert who has a copy of your textbook. In Personal Tutor's virtual classroom, you will interact with the tutor and other students using two-way audio, an interactive whiteboard for illustrating the problem, and instant messaging. To ask a question, simply click to raise a "hand". You may purchase access to Personal Tutor at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

Save time and money . . . iLrn™: Heinle Learning Center has everything you need to master the skills and contents of the course-all built right in to this dynamic audio- and video-enhanced learning environment, including a powerful study tool that helps you determine your unique study needs then gives you a Personalized Study plan. You will also have access to an audio-enhanced eBook with integrated activities, companion videos, an interactive VoiceBoard with helpful role plays, an online SAM with audio, live, online tutoring with a French teaching expert, and over thirty grammar tutorial videos. The new Share It! Feature enables sharing and uploading files, such as videos, for assignments and projects. Share It! also allows you to comment and rate your classmates' uploaded material. You can purchase instant access to the iLrn™: Heinle Learning Center at http://www.cengagebrain.com.

Meet the Author

Author Bio

Chantal P. Thompson

Chantal Péron Thompson is a native of Quimper, France. She graduated valedictorian from one of the largest high schools in France (le Lycée de Kérichen à Brest) and developed a love of writing under the spell of the wind-swept coast of Brittany. At age sixteen, she was National Champion of France in the long jump. She went on to attend the University of Rennes and came to the United States to perfect her English and attend graduate school. She ended up getting married and staying! She has been on the faculty at Brigham Young University since 1973 and has earned many teaching awards. The latest is a distinguished University Professorship (1998-2008). She founded the African Studies Program at Brigham Young University and has taken several groups of students to Senegal. She currently directs first-year French courses and trains and supervises a team of fifteen to eighteen student instructors each semester. Thompson is a certified ACTFL Tester and Trainer and conducts workshops worldwide on teaching and testing for proficiency. Her speaking engagements have included keynote addresses at major conferences from Salem, Oregon, to Bangkok, Thailand. She has also presented a series of ACTFL webinars (March-April 2011). Thompson is the primary author of MAIS OUI! a first-year French text (Houghton Mifflin/Cengage Learning 1996, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2012); ENSUITE, a second-year text (McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2003); and MOMENTS LITTÉRAIRES, a literary anthology for intermediate-level courses (Heinle/Cengage Learning, 1992, 2006).

Chantal Péron Thompson is a native of Quimper, France. She graduated valedictorian from one of the largest high schools in France (le Lycée de Kérichen à Brest) and developed a love of writing under the spell of the wind-swept coast of Brittany. At age sixteen, she was National Champion of France in the long jump. She went on to attend the University of Rennes and came to the United States to perfect her English and attend graduate school. She ended up getting married and staying! She has been on the faculty at Brigham Young University since 1973 and has earned many teaching awards. The latest is a distinguished University Professorship (1998-2008). She founded the African Studies Program at Brigham Young University and has taken several groups of students to Senegal. She currently directs first-year French courses and trains and supervises a team of fifteen to eighteen student instructors each semester. Thompson is a certified ACTFL Tester and Trainer and conducts workshops worldwide on teaching and testing for proficiency. Her speaking engagements have included keynote addresses at major conferences from Salem, Oregon, to Bangkok, Thailand. She has also presented a series of ACTFL webinars (March-April 2011). Thompson is the primary author of MAIS OUI! a first-year French text (Houghton Mifflin/Cengage Learning 1996, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2012); ENSUITE, a second-year text (McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2003); and MOMENTS LITTÉRAIRES, a literary anthology for intermediate-level courses (Heinle/Cengage Learning, 1992, 2006).

Elaine M. Phillips

Elaine M. Phillips has an M.A. in French literature and a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her career in foreign language education spans more than thirty years including teaching French in an American high school in Germany and in college and junior college in Texas. She also supervised and taught methods courses for student teachers and graduate courses in Foreign Language Education at UT Austin. Her previous experience as director of the LOTE Center for Educator Development focused on foreign language standards implementation and professional development for in-service teachers. She served as Project Director for the 2007 Texas Language Summit, which assessed economic, social, and cultural imperatives for language competency in Texas for the National Security Education Program, co-authoring LANGUAGE ROADMAP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: TEXAS. Phillips is currently a language education and evaluation consultant.

Elaine M. Phillips has an M.A. in French literature and a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her career in foreign language education spans more than thirty years including teaching French in an American high school in Germany and in college and junior college in Texas. She also supervised and taught methods courses for student teachers and graduate courses in Foreign Language Education at UT Austin. Her previous experience as director of the LOTE Center for Educator Development focused on foreign language standards implementation and professional development for in-service teachers. She served as Project Director for the 2007 Texas Language Summit, which assessed economic, social, and cultural imperatives for language competency in Texas for the National Security Education Program, co-authoring LANGUAGE ROADMAP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: TEXAS. Phillips is currently a language education and evaluation consultant.